Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Contents -- Introduction -- References -- 1. What are we typologists doing? -- Notes -- References -- 2. The canonical approach in typology -- Appendix: Criteria for Canonical Agreement -- Notes -- References -- 3. What is an empirical theory of linguistic meaning a theory of ? -- Notes -- References -- 4. Language processes, theory and description of language change, and building on the past -- Notes -- References -- 5. On the part played by human conscious choice in language structure and language evolution -- References -- 6. The challenge of polygrammaticalization for linguistic theory -- Notes -- References -- 7. On discourse frequency, grammar, and grammaticalization -- Acknowlegdements -- References -- 8. On the assumption of the sentence as the basic unit of syntactic structure -- References -- 9. Adpositions as a non-universal category -- Notes -- References -- 10. Understanding antigemination -- Notes -- References -- 11. What it means to be rare: The variability of person marking -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- 12. The principle of Functional Transparency in language structure and in language evolution -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- 13. The importance of discourse analysis for linguistic theory -- Notes -- References -- 14. Compounding theories and linguistic diversity -- References -- 15. Inalienability and possessum individuation -- Notes -- References -- 16. Resultativeness in English -- References -- Sources of data -- 17. Encoding speaker perspective: Evidentials -- Notes -- References -- 18. Distinguishing between referential and grammatical function in morphological typology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- the series Studies in Language Companion Series.